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Saturday, June 11, 2011

The Fail Files: Psychedelic Sunshine

Here's the first in a sporadic series I'm calling The Fail Files. There's a number of reasons for Nail Fail in my world:

I did a crap job of polishing

The polish is crap

The brush is crap

There's a conspiracy against my manicure

Pet fur

For some reason I got a bee up my butt and I needed to add a yellow to my polish diet. I'm lucky to have a Sally Beauty about 1.5 miles from my house, just up the sidewalk from Panera Bread and our favorite sushi place. I went there looking for polish and I came across Fingerpaints Psychedelic Sunshine. I'd seen the PR swatches online and thought, "Ohmigosh, that looks AWESOME!" So I bought it, thinking I'd layer it over China Glaze's Lemon Fizz, a pretty pale yellow creme.

PS is a thick, gooey, gelatinous, translucent mess. I'd never worked with such a goopy polish in my life! Since I'd applied it the night before for Friday, I didn't have a chance to remove it. Suck it up, Buttercup, right?

Granted, I was still learning how to clean up the cuticles. But Psychedelic Sunshine puddled on my nails, making glittery boogers on my nails. I was so disappointed I tried to return the polish but since the brush touches the body (so to speak) Sally wouldn't accept it.

Removal was a complete and utter bitch. I had to break out the soaking tray, soak my nails in acetone, and use an orange stick to scrap it off.

I don't know if polish thinner will do the trick and honestly, I don't care. This polish blows chunks. If someone wants to swap I'll be happy to ship this problem child elsewhere. I got another yellow glitter from China Glaze so yeah, I'm set. Blerg!

5 comments:

I'm not used to wear yellow nail polishes...I've got one but haven't tried it yet...not my fav color.

Somedays, there's a conspiracy against my manicure, too!! I had a lot of bubbles for a mani I did last week with a Catrice nail polish. I did it twice (with different base/top coats) but always the same problem T_TI then added some stamping decorations on top and finally it came out not so bad! LOLI'll do a post about it soon ;D

@Nailderella, I'm trying to break free from my "comfort" polishes of bright pinks and berries. I have a couple of untried yellows in Elmer the Helmer :).

@Chaos, I know, right? But with The Fail Files, my crummy mani make for good reading I hope! I want to go all "The Facts of Life"; You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and then you have Pet Fur!